US Interior Department blocks Conservative Blogs!

That’s right. Some department official seems to have pulled the switch and put the iron curtain around the Department. In an attempt to prevent the pollution of conservative ideas in the government they now only allow liberal blogs. Nice.

On top of this development are the following…. (HT to Wizbang)

Wizbang

You can judge a blog by the nature of its enemies

In most countries, the “Interior Ministry” is usually the state security branch — the secret police, and whatnot. But as George Carlin once so famously pointed out, here in the United States the Department of the Interior is in charge of everything that’s outside — the wilderness, the parks, and whatnot.

But apparently some of our Department of the Interior are jealous of their foreign colleagues, who apparently taunt them at international Interior gatherings. (”Hey, Joe, how many subversive trees did you round up last week?”) So they have started to play with similar responsibilities, and are starting to block certain conservative blogs.

Atlas Shrugs

One of my favorite bloggers and fellow infidel at the Infidel Bloggers Alliance, Baron Bodissey of Gates of Vienna, comes this shocking, illogical act of government censorship (and we are on their side……hrumph)

Gates of Vienna

This email just came in from a reader:

Howdy,

Department of the InteriorI’m a long-time reader, without ever actually commenting on anything. Yesterday the U.S. Department of the Interior installed blocking software on their entire network. Gates of Vienna is now blocked, as are all sites with a .blogspot URL. Also blocked are other conservative blogs, such as Wizbang. More than half the sites I check on a daily basis are now completely blocked. As of today, Little Green Footballs is not blocked, but that’s about the only one I’ve seen that isn’t. There’s not much that can be done, but I just thought I’d let you know. I’ll check later today when I get in to see if the liberal blogs are blocked.

As of now, Little Green Footballs is also being blocked, but DailyKos is not. I don’t have a contact for Charles. Can we try to get the word out? Blocking conservative blogs and not liberal ones is BS.

Take care, and thanks for the good stuff you folks post.

He sent a follow-up a couple of minutes later:
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Here’s a quick runthrough of what I’ve found so far at work. You’ll see that its pretty one-sided.

Blocked Blogs:
Captain’s Quarters
Cox and Forkum
Gates of Vienna
Little Green Footballs
Michael J. Totten
Michelle Malkin
Power Line
Protein Wisdom
Rantings of a Sandmonkey
Roger L. Simon
The Adventures of Chester
The American Thinker
The Belmont Club
The Doctor is In
Wizbang

Blogs not blocked
DailyKos
Democrat Underground
America blog
Atrios.blogspot.com
JuanCole.com
The Huffington Post
Talkingpointsmemo.com

In fact, every blog linked to off of DailyKos seems to work.

Please, please get the word out about this. It not only royally sucks that I can’t read stuff during downtimes at work, but they are being so blatantly biased as to what is being blocked. Thanks.

What do you bet that some apology comes out saying it was a mistake. The only question is how long before this happens??

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